[tex-live] Upgrade from texlive 2016

[Manfred Lotz]

On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 20:52:36 +0300
Nikos Platis <nplatis at uop.gr> wrote:

> OK, there are two things mixed up here, incorrectly (by Zdenek and
> then Manfred).
> 
> (a) The update command (tlmgr update ...) has updated TL 2016 to 2017
> without any warning, in the same directory.
> (b) The procedure described in
> https://www.tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html does instruct to duplicate
> the installation directory.
> 
> It seems that all this (esp. (a)) will soon be corrected by Norbert
> (btw, if I recall correctly, in previous years you simply could not
> upgrade directly).
> 
> 

Thanks, Nikos. Your explanations make much sense, and I'm happy not to
have had a pebkac issue in that particular situation.

-- 
Best, Manfred

> 
> 2017-07-16 20:45 GMT+03:00 Manfred Lotz <manfred at dante.de>:
> 
> > On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 11:04:24 +0200
> > Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  
> > > 2017-07-16 8:05 GMT+02:00 Manfred Lotz <manfred at dante.de>:
> > >  
> > > > On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 07:51:29 +0200
> > > > martin at dante.de wrote:
> > > >  
> > > > > I accidently did that by just updating TL 2016 (tlmgr update
> > > > > --all --self) after 2017 had been released.
> > > > >
> > > > > To be honest: I did not like that result as it happened
> > > > > without warning.
> > > > >  
> > > >
> > > > Yes, for those who want to keep older texlive installations it
> > > > is bad to get this result without prior warning.
> > > >  
> > >
> > > It says: copy the 2016 directory to 2017. If you follow this
> > > instruction, at the end of the procedure you have both.
> > >  
> >
> > Hm, I don't recall having seen any warning.
> >
> > If this was a warning without requiring me to answer anything in
> > order to continue then it could be that the warning appeared but I
> > didn't notice it. In this case  I would diagnose it as pebkac.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Manfred
> >  
> 
> 
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